063: Effective Task & Project Management
Episode description
The main reason people aren’t able to effectively manage their important tasks and projects is they don’t have a good system for capturing tasks and ideas as they come up. In this episode I’ll share with you the three keys to effective task capture and management.
- The Magic Number 7, Plus or Minus 2: Some Limits on Our Capacity for Processing Information, by George Miller
- Eisenhower Matrix, ETA blog post
- David Allen interview by Tim Ferriss
- Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress Free Productivity, by David Allen
- Asana; - cloud-based task & project management tool
- Omnifocus for Mac
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General Resources
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